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With more than four months left in 2018, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) investors aren’t having much fun with BABA stock, which is up less than 3% year to date through Aug. 9.15 Stocks to Buy Ahead of the Fall Season …read more […]

Chemical giant Monsanto was was ordered to pay $289 million (£226 million) in damages in the first trial over claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer. Lee Johnson, a former school groundskeeper whose doctors didn’t think he’d live long enough to learn the verdict, prevailed Friday in San Francisco state court after jurors deliberated for three days. The trial was an important test of the evidence against Monsanto and will serve as a template for litigating thousands of other claims over the herbicide. Mr Johnson was seeking $412 million in damages. Jurors awarded him $39 million for his losses …read more […]

A beat and a raise, what’s not to like? …read more […]

President Trump says in a tweet that he has dinner plans with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Cook has been vocal in his disapproval of certain Trump Administration policies, particularly around immigration and trade. “He is investing big dollars in U.S.A.,” Trump said in the tweet. …read more […]

Walmart (WMT) has seen its stock price climb over 4% in the last month. Shares of WMT also popped on Friday, just less than a week before the retail behemoth reports its quarterly financial results. So let’s do a quick preview of what investors should expect from Walmart’s second-quarter earnings. …read more […]

The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) following a $62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, faces more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the United States. The jury at San Francisco’s Superior Court of California deliberated for three days before finding that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weed killers. …read more […]

It’s true. McDonald’s is giving away free food free for life. As part of its McGold Card Sweepstakes, you have a chance to win Mickey D’s for years to come. Here’s what you need to know. …read more […]

The programmatic advertising specialist produced record revenue while plowing past even its own ambitious targets. …read more […]

With more demand comes a need to spend more. …read more […]

By all accounts, the shares of Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) should be trading somewhere around $84. That’s the consensus price target which analysts have come up with. Given that MU stock is only trading at a forward price-earnings ratio of 4.4, the argument that the shares could be worth three times their current value of $51.37 holds water. …read more […]

The programmatic ad leader delivered a stellar second quarter and raised its outlook. Here’s what investors need to know. …read more […]

U.S. stocks slid on Friday as a deepening economic crisis in Turkey dragged on bank stocks and triggered fears that it could spread to other global economies. A drop in technology shares added to the bearish … …read more […]

Its shares fell after the real estate specialist issued a disappointing outlook in its second-quarter report. …read more […]

Analysts say Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMD) is well-positioned to take market share away from data center and PC processor market leader Intel Corporation ( INTC), now that Intel delayed the launch of its 10 nanometer processors until 2019. On Friday, Goldman Sachs simultaneously downgraded INTC and upgraded AMD stock and said AMD market share gains may not just be temporary. According to analyst Toshiya Hari, AMD has a golden opportunity to win over business from Intel customers. …read more […]

Like many tech stocks, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has declined in recent days. Now that the shares are roughly 7.5% off the highs reached in May, is it time to pull the trigger and buy Cisco? For those interested in the name, here are three catalysts that can push Cisco higher. …read more […]